I'd hate to break it to you but life is about choices. If you chose to stay with the company until the end then you only have yourself to blame. You also chose to do a job besides sales. That's not our fault. There were flares for all of 2015 and 2016 which were nothing short of an uncontrolled forest fire. I'm sorry, but if you were that worried and cared that much about your families you should have been looking for another gig a long time ago. You have no one to blame if you put all of your eggs in this sh*thole basket.
Not trying to be insensitive but this situation has been bad for everyone. Sales included.
You're also complaining about sales in the wrong forum. Cafe pharma is a sales forum. I always find it interesting when non-sales people sneak on here and then seem appalled by our discussions. Perhaps you try and look for Cafe Customer Service or Phleb Talk Today.
We talk about issues that relate to us. The sales force is incentive and money driven and when those things are taken away, we will complain about it. Sorry, it's the way we are wired. Voice your opinion all you want and trash sales but sales worked their asses off so you would have a job and you could feed your families and pay your bills. Sales is not easy. If it was, everyone would be doing it.
Do you really think sales is to blame for this abortion? I've been in sales a long time and you are naive if you think this many sales people left other jobs to come here and fail. Or if this many successful sales people proven at Atherotech all of sudden sucked at their jobs the next year.
Blame the changes in the billing polices that I highly suspect were never mandated by the OIG or DOJ. The executives simply over promised and underdelivered and overstated the importance of our technology in the industry. They priced it one way which was growing business and then thought that the demand would still be there with pricing changes. Capitalism at it's best. Greed at it's worst! Once the sales revenue diminished, they panicked and after multiple billing changes we lost the trust of our clients. There are still plenty of labs out in the industry that never balance bill the patients or still cap the cost to the patient. You don't see the DOJ or OIG going after everyone else.
Good luck to you non-sales people in here. Time to fill out that application, polish up that resume, get that cocksuker ready or start shaving privates. Sometimes you just gotta what you have to do to keep the lights on!
While all you pissed off sales people that made the big bucks are sitting around pointing fingers and name calling like a bunch of 12 year olds, the rest of the company ie phlebotomists, supervisors, managers, billing, customer service, are trying to figure out how we are going to keep our houses, feed our families, pay our electric and gas bills. You are the most immature group of adults I have ever seen. Get over it and shut your cocksuckers. So what, you can't go to Italy. Some of us will be lucky to be able to go to the grocery. Cocksuckers.